3/8/2021

Introduction

About me

Personal

  • I was born in Tunis, Tunisia
  • My favorite food is tacos (spicy salsa necessary)
  • My favorite animal is the wolverine

About me

Academic

  • My undergraduate institution was the University of Maryland, College Park
  • I earned a B.S. in Environmental Science & Policy with a concentration in Wildlife Ecology & Management (such a mouthful)

About me

Things I’ve missed during the pandemic

  1. Hosting and cooking for friends
  2. More active work days
  3. Visiting new places and meeting new people

Data Science

Course topics

3 things I enjoyed learning about

  1. Citations, reports, and presentations in RMarkdown
  2. The many wonders of GitHub!
  3. The importance of reproducible workflows

Course topics

3 things I want to learn more about

  1. Organizations within GitHub and more complicated repo structures
  2. How to scrape information from websites
  3. What other programming languages are useful for R users and data scientists to know (Python, Julia, etc)